Isaac Coles

Isaac Coles (2 March 1747-3 June 1813) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-VA 6) from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1791 (preceding Abraham B. Venable) and from 4 March 1793 to 3 March 1797 (succeeding Venable and preceding Matthew Clay).

Biography
Isaac Coles was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1747, and he served as a colonel in the state militia during the American Revolutionary War. From 1780 to 1781 and from 1783 to 1788, he served in the House of Delegates, and, although he opposed the ratification of the US Constitution in 1788, he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1789 to 1791 and from 1793 to 1797. He died on his plantation near Chatham in 1813.